No Vineyard vacation this year

7/3/12 8:19 AM EDT

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The Boston Globe reports that the Obama family will be skipping its annual summer jaunt to Martha's Vineyard this year:

“The State Police detachment on the island has been told that the president will not be coming; extensive bookings to house the president’s staff and security have been canceled by the White House travel office; and the 28-acre waterfront ¬estate in Chilmark where the Obamas stayed the last three years has been sold to a British couple.”